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Books 2006 #6 The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece

What a pathetic haul of books so far. I’ve been way too busy for my own good this year. Thankfully, that’s all over and done with now and I can hopefully squeeze in another one or two before the year’s … Continue reading

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Terry Gilliam on the Harry Potter films

“Gilliam: Alfonso Cuaron’s [“Prisoner of Azkaban”] is really good, but the first two I thought were just shite. They missed the whole point of it; they missed the magic of it … Alfonso did something much closer to what I … Continue reading

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Movies 2006 #41

Un Flic: the first 70 or so minutes are really pretty good. Alain Delon is as cool as he ever is, the drama is pretty tight and Catherine Deneuve is Catherine Deneuve. And then there’s this bizarre scene that uses … Continue reading

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William Gibson's new book has a name:

“Spook Country” Now if it could just have a cover, a release date and some place I could buy a time machine we’d be all set.

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